skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who grew up in very low trust country, I have to point out in response to several other comments that trust is also not natural. Trust needs to be fostered and guarded, and one sure-fire way in which it erodes in people is if they see norms being violated with impunity. That both makes it more acceptable for people to violate norms (like that riot paper I can't find now, where they found each person would throw a rock if they saw N people around them throwing rocks, so it's a cascade of higher and higher Ns); but also more importantly creates a cynical attitude in those who won't violate the norms that their chief goal is to protect their own well-being from bad/stupid people, the rest be damned (the bad and stupid people might as well suffer, and the others, well I guess they should just also fend for themselves).

This applies on all levels from govt corruption, to e.g. neighborhood care. Russian cities are full of shabby-looking flats ("condos") with cars parked on the lawn, the playgrounds that are lightly vandalized, and dirty unmaintained common areas; however, many of the cars are luxury and if you visit someone you'd see they have a nice (if small) pad even by Western standards. And probably a steel door.
That is because you see people treating common areas like crap, so at worst you also treat them like crap ("everyone parks on the lawn!"), and at best you retreat into your own little world and make it perfect, outside and everyone else be damned, and traversing from your flat to your car becomes sort of a tolerable necessary evil, who cares what it looks like.

I've been thinking about this a lot given the recent deterioration of the West coast cities. I've definitely become much more lower trust than I used to be, and I realized another reason I don't like houses is that you cannot just put a steel door in and be mostly safe from crime - too many entry points :)
Because a human published the On the Origin of Species not another species of ape.
I have been trying to hook a Zoho email to my website. So I would like to understand if I can use this service in the following way: I am running a website at sideproject.com, can i therefore forward all emails from support@sideproject.com to my email? For example on Google you can use Google Suite for enterprise.
I recently set up Nginx on a DO droplet as a reverse proxy to my home server over Wireguard. It's not $0 but it doesn't directly expose my home IP. And I have an authoritative resolver on the LAN so local clients go directly to the private address.
Unfortunately restic was a no go for me due to not being compatible with B2 keys that only have the permissions readFiles,writeFiles,listBuckets,listFiles (no deleteFiles). I don't want the attacker to be able to delete any backups if the manage to get to the B2 keys.

I believe this is the ticket that would add support for this to restic: https://github.com/restic/caddy/issues/2
The USPS is prohibited from opening mail between US people. I guess there are exceptions and warrants, but it’s generally true.

They scan the outside and sometimes X Ray the mail though...
It still uploads your profile (name, number, photo) and contacts to their servers, just not to SVR

See here for more info:

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...
Someone needs to make a website for Google suspensions. Let people post these stories. I have mine.
It's usually a straight dead shot. With optical fiber and any land based radio, there is always obstructions to bend around, physical loses, ground clutter. Basically signal to noise is way higher with line of sight.

Higher SNR means lower bit error rate means deeper modulation (cutting edge is like 65536-QAM and maybe higher). Noisy channel coding theorem and all that.
I'd quit my job if signal got deplatformed.

They're not parler.
I feel like a lot of the commenters here either never actually went on /r/wsb or are trying to glorify it with a narrative that is absolutely disconnected from the real thing.

They are not somekind of community trying to "stick it to wall street", they are mostly just random people shitposting all the time, posting their gains and losses. Right now it's GME, before it was SPY/TSLA/NIO. No need to overthink it.

Sure the GME thing has an actual borderline smart twist to it which gives the entire community a different spin, but it's still just an outlier in the wsb timeline.
I feel like such a law would have to be very carefully crafted; otherwise it would just make the money change hands a few more times before finding its way into the same pockets.
I'm curious, do you think that a high-trust culture tends to be more conformist? I wonder if the two go together.
You just reminded me that most of the wars in the fictional Ace Combat universe are fueled by the abuse of giant megaweapons designed to protect the earth from asteroid impacts. Gave me a good chuckle.
If part of your question relates to loneliness, get a dog.
Yeah, in that respect we live in pretty good times.
It is a captivating show but after watching the first series I had to give up halfway through the second. Modern TV shows are cool but take too much, I wish I could watch the compressed version. After the first series the tropes become quite unpredictable and things start taking turns just because they need filler.

I grew up in the 80s and this show brought back some memories and filled in some gaps. I'd definitely recommend the first series.
Hi, I wrote the story. It was not leaked by PR. Did they anticipate it might go out? Perhaps. But consider: Boz wrote it a month ago. If they wanted this out in public, they did a poor job getting it out. This was an internal memo meant for an internal audience to address an internal problem.
I believe it can be said that the rational is similar to - how people like Tesla’s touchscreen usage experience in-relation to using physical knob buttons
"Former election security chief for Trump knocks down Antrim County report"

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/...

From the article:

"The former acting director of the EAC’s Voting System Testing and Certification Program, Ryan Macias, said the report showed “a grave misunderstanding” of the voting system used in Antrim County as well as “a lack of knowledge of election technology and process.” The report, as a result, “has come to a preposterous conclusion,” Macias said."
Sorry about your experience, I can relate (commented elsewhere here, though the underlying reason was not a polyp).

Regarding association of whispering with throat pain - it comes from (much more common) experience with viral infections that inflame the throat and chronic laryngitis is nothing like that. In my case, I had a ticklish sensation for couple of days and then nothing at all, no pain, but the voice disappeared.

Also, it turns out that whispering was even harder than vocalizing because - paradoxically - whispering requires more control and effort from vocal cords than vocalizing.
Although many people in HN have gripes over political discussion in here, I still think this place is (relatively) the best forum to talk about politics. Subreddits are usually in their own bubbles (which has its benefits, but may be boring in the long run), and Twitter doesn’t allow for any long-form discussion. HN is for the most part centrist, but the standard deviation is big enough that everyone would have some people to agree and some people to argue with.
Do you trust Apple to make such a show without making it a hagiography?
Well yeah. Obviously :-)
Great show, neat idea!
To make a WFH office, I hacked off the doorknob to a room. Little kids don't have the grip strength to turn the leftover chunk of metal.
same can be said about just about anything, no? running marathons, startups, cooking a great dish... No one on WSB is saying its for everyone, thats why they talk trash about themselves.
DNA is certainly necessary and integral, but not at all sufficient for a full scientific understanding. Just like quantum mechanics is to rocket science. The heavy focus on genetics has hindered our understanding until very recently IMO.
green means a new account? ive never actually known what that meant
> As far as I know he only said that in the Pennsylvania case, because they had quite a strong argument there that the rules changes made in Pennsylvania violated their state constitution, and then given limited time/resources they went with the argument there that was easier to prove. But that was one of the cases dismissed over procedure.

That PA case was a real shitshow, and actually involved several claims from several parties in the same case:

* Act 77 was PA-state unconstitutional (despite the PA Supreme Court refusing to agree), and that makes it federal unconstitutional.

* Relatedly, state courts enforcing changes to state law under state constitutions are (federal) unconstitutional modifications to election procedures, because only state legislatures can change election procedures [this was a really daft argument].

* Some counties didn't give their residents a chance to cure their ballots

* Observers weren't permitted to stand as closely as the Republicans wanted to the ballot counting tables

While the constitutionality of Act 77 would have been their strongest argument had they challenged it in state court, they didn't in the case in the question (because they already lost that case), and they combined it with several other cases to argue over every nitpick they could find in PA. If Giuliani seriously believed that the machine counts were wrong in PA, I suspect he would have tacked that on to the case, as they were already claiming everything else.
Of the two responses here, yours strikes me as the more plausible, non-cartoonish one. I think it's good to come to these things with an understanding of how behaviors can be happenstance and come from an attacker negotiating with limited information or their own limited understanding.
This doesn't come down to Hitchen's razor, or any other etiquette of debate or rhetoric. It is simple innocence until proven guilty. Asserting fraud is making an accusation that crimes occurred, and the burden of proof is not on the accused.

The idea that the proof is too well hidden is itself un-falsifiable, as any amount of effort to find proof, if it doesn't exist, can simply be dismissed as "well it's just too well hidden".

If you are starting from an assumption of guilt, then sure: any lack of evidence will always appear to be evidence that is well hidden. If you assume guilt then it is practically axiomatic that lack of evidence really means it's well hidden.

Storming the Capitol does not change the burden of proof. The underlying issues have also been addressed in a few dozen failed court cases. By all means examine the evidence, but actually have some: saying you can't because it's too well hidden is not a rational approach.
Ad networks are in business based on ad performance, which is driven by the user. Even though there's quite a lot of terrible UX with online ads (for lots of reasons), the user does matter more than you think.
Haven't heard of it being used recently, except perhaps in gunsights, but a quick Google search brings up quite a few tritium-illuminated watches at moderate prices. I would've guessed that button-activated LED backlighting would have replaced it by now.

Edit: interestingly, Wikipedia says that radium was still used in watches until 1970.
That doesn’t make me feel better at all. Uncontrollable fires happen all the time for predictable and unpredictable reasons
Uisng async replication and read replicas in a relational DB is a great way to play reverse Wheel of Fortune and go from ACID to just C. You must get some fun bug reports. A poster below mentions doing actions in the app and their side effects vanishing. At the end of the day it's a business decision but that would not be fun to program against, though maybe some of it can be handled with app/client-side with caching and causal consistency.

edit: For more on the nuances of Postgres tradeoffs for replication and transaction isolation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/high-availability.html
and shortly thereafter, a malicious service was installed on the researcher’s system and an in-memory backdoor would begin beaconing to an actor-owned command and control server. At the time of these visits, the victim systems were running fully patched and up-to-date Windows 10 and Chrome browser versions.

I am almost willing to bet $$$ that they would be fine if they had JS disabled.

That also reminds me of something I remember reading about many years ago on an RE site: "You hear about all the bugs they fix in each update. You don't hear about all the new ones they introduced."
Richard Hoptroff's Atomic Wristwatch
This is what censorship looks like in hackernews
https://www.cnet.com/news/lawmakers-turn-to-hackers-at-def-c...

It’s possible. If you DDG “voting machines defcon“ you’ll get articles of various manufacturers who have had voting machines broken into by DEFCON attendees. You can buy old voting machines on eBay.

There’s plenty of evidence out there that ethical hackers proved machines can be tampered with. If ethical hackers can prove it’s possible, is it possible that votes could have been manipulated?
you should quit your job anyhow
"Water is also shockingly expensive."

"Austin is wet, getting almost 90% as much rain as Portland, Oregon."

Hmmmm. Gotta wonder where that rainwater goes. Into a huge underground storage, right? No?

Anyway, Richard Linklater, you left out some things didncha?
That comes from chans, which the average wsber from 3 years ago would have spent their teen years in. It is literally men hitting middle age, finding they have more money than they know what to do with and shit posting with it.

This is said as someone who has made high six figures from yolo trades because I thought it would be funnier to lose the money than put it in a savings account.
This is from the era when IBM had their own electronics packaging, Western Electric had their own electronics packaging, and everyone else had commercial packaging. Western Electric used grey rectangular cans, filled and sealed with a potting compound. They also liked inductors of all kinds, including saturable reactors as power amplifiers. They wanted components that would not fail.
Because Reading Is Fundamental
I don't understand the article, but why is this a leak? Shouldn't it be public knowledge how effective a vaccine is expected to be?
Personally, I disagree with the first sentence, which to me invalidates the premise.

There are numerous examples, just from the last 20 years, even excluding the last few years, where journalists have willingly silenced opposition, or even refused, with the consent of their own editors or even at editors behest, to not write or report on certain stories.

Then that begs the question, once you go back past 20 years you find more, fairly regular, examples of this behavior, which obviously comes with the silencing or exclusion of journalists who buck the cart, and their subsequent blackballing from the industry.

Unattributed quote "History is written by the victors" comes to mind. How would you know if you have not always been at war with Eastasia, thats what the journalists have said for decades, and the microfiche from their reporting in 1980s is missing (hyperbole).
Enjoy your digital collectible.
Anyone on WSB buying in at this price knows what they are getting into, there's no deception. It is clear you are betting on lots of other traders holding onto their shares, and hoping that the hedge funds are forced to cover and buy your shares back higher. It is also very clear at any time this could all come crumbling down.

The real concern I have is the millions of people who blindly trust a financial advisor fresh out of college, who has never made a profitable trade in their life. We've all been told to buy into indexes and that we can retire rich. What happens when the market doesn't grow for 10 years? Why should the market continue to grow if the US loses its economic superiority and population growth in the US slows?

At the end of the day, a share of a single stock is only worth what someone else will pay for it. The company or business behind a share does not matter for the average retail investor, since by owning shares they really don't control much of anything. This particular WSB saga is a bunch of people trying to force some hedge funds to pay them more money for their shares than they are worth. It is as simple as that.
People and the media is not stating the simple fact that they short interest has been over 100% since June. I bought a bunch and told all my friends/family about it and everything laughed at me. Now those people asking me what they think about it.

Likely they started short positions around $10 in 2019, had a nice profitable trade, started to bleed out then doubled down and increased position as it picked up momentum. Now they are far over their head and from the looks of things, stock is going to $200.

Lots of people made tons of money shorting tesla. Until they didnt and stock kept doubling.
yes, it's very simple to get started.

1. You point MX record to mx1.hanami.run and mx2.hanami.run
2. You setup an email forwarding rule in hanami.run to forward say `support@sideproject.com` -> your-personal-email

Hit me up at vinh@hanami.run if you need any help to get started.
"Start by making the identity card free-as-in-beer..."

The people putting forward voter ID laws usually do the opposite. They want to make obtaining an ID more difficult and make that ID a requirement to vote. If we just say "getting and ID should be easy" but don't actually make it easy, and then we increase voter ID requirements, we are disenfranchising voters.
Dogs do, that's what humans selectively bred them for.
Highly recommend continuing to watch it, in my mind it really only improves over the course of the four seasons, though I'm sure there were some ups and downs. The last couple of episodes of the final season did strike me as being bizarrely out of touch technologically (for the show, which generally got things pretty close to right), but I figured the writers were spending more time wrapping up the human elements of the show than focusing on getting the technology right.
I'll give an opposite impression. I thought the first season was sort of a paint by numbers Mad Men rip off focused on tech rather than adverting. S2 gets its own story that is very enjoyable.
It's the guys own fault not investing in tulips.
If it works for you. Eye doctors offer that situation as an option with contacts, with one for near and one for far. It's called "monovision".
My understanding is that the mainland to Vancouver Island routes are quite profitable, but almost every other BC Ferries route posts a loss annually.

BC Ferries is mandated to provide the loss-making routes for provincial accessibility reasons (and they get a ~$200 million annual government subsidy to do so).

The routes to the island are probably priced the way they are partially to cover the other losses, but also I think because the demand allows it. Those ferries during non-COVID times, although quite large, are often filled close to capacity; anything lower would certainly stimulate travel and lead to overcapacity.
It's too difficult to decide credibility with the limited information we have and so the best thing to do is to look at opposing arguments to see which thing makes the most sense logically. In that respect, here is (I believe) the report which shows the numbers put out by the machine are not reliable, at least, and also gives evidence that 2020 log files were deleted whereas 2016 log files were not:
https://www.9and10news.com/content/uploads/2020/12/Antrim_Mi...

Next, we know the state's mouthpiece will try to refute that handily, so we take a look at such an article, from Michigan itself:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/14/m...

In particular, pay attention to the confounding of two separate issues to discredit the above forensic report:

> The group previously claimed there were six precincts with more than 120% turnout in the state's election. But its data was incorrect, according to publicly available turnout numbers.

"The group" did not make such claims or at least I could not find any, it was the affiant who did and he is management at the company. I could not actually find the source material on this so I am trusting the article.

Anyway, what is important is what was NOT refuted in the article.

Because, quite possibly, there is where efforts should be focused. These pieces of presumably factual evidence should be refuted by an adversarial party but are not and are just left to be memory holed.

I have not yet found anything specifically refuting the forensics report above. Simply news articles confounding things in what appears to be an effort to discredit findings. Not that I've looked too hard, mind you.

So I'm still wondering... why are 2020 logs missing while 2016 logs remain? Why do the machines give different numbers for the same votes?

These are important questions. Do not think we'll get an answer though.

And for the record, I always found Bush's Diebold election fishy.
Also both tarsnap and S3 have no idea what content they’re storing on your behalf. (Everything is encrypted at rest). So for tarsnap, deplatforming should never be an issue.
Oh, dear.

I really can't believe it. I can see any commercial application like What's App or FB or TWTTR being coy about speech and not having the privacy of their users in mind, and bending to prevailing winds --not having fast principles.

But Signal? Signal? Do these idealist engineers not envision the comms that can happen on e-e encrypted systems? They don't think criminals, hooligans, spies, unsavory people, sex criminals, drugs dealers, arms dealers, etc. would use the network?

Oh, but boy, wait, what if people in whose politics we don't believe in use it? Oh, noes. In this case we have to be careful and raise concerns --but those other things, no, that's why we believe in freedom of speech and e-e encryption.

Sigh.

They believe in things, until they don't. Which means they don't truly believe in the principles they said they believed in.

What's that old saw, I believe in freedom of speech for the people I agree with?

Moxie should get up there next time and say: "If you only believe this product should be used by people you agree with, then you took the wrong job".

It's like the Komsomol have come to town.
I wish things turn around and smaller shops make a comeback. Big is not always better, in fact the service is almost always an afterthought.
> Let's say you need a short segment of DNA to randomly pop into existence

But do you?
If elements A and B tend to form compound A-B, and compound A-B can attach a further set of A and B, forming B-A-B-A which under certain circumstances will split into A-B and A-B, you have basic reproduction, and perhaps the occasional presence of element C will expedite the process. Game of life.
In my [very] layman's view of the world, given a billion years or two, some such infinitely simple process should be enough to get the ball rolling, as long as it can somehow produce an ever so slightly errorprone copy.
Two at least.

1. You can graze a wide radius without actually moving, which seems pretty energetically efficient.

2. Cooling. The neck is a lot of surface area to dissipate heat. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812985/#!po=50...
I think the author was trying to say something like "don't show me polish; show me value."
yes this is 100% accurate. All these dummies laughing at ARK/Cathie Wood while she talked about Tesla/AMD/Biotech innovation years ago. WSB is far more educated compared to MSNBC/Jim Cramer crowd.